If cryopreservation becomes mainstream, then that’s literally it. Nobody dies, and all of humanity logrolls itself into raising the next generations to be friendly and create aligned AGI.
Even the total sociopaths participate to some degree (e.g. verbally support, often avoid obstruction if they are very powerful). If they don’t have preserved loved ones to protect, they still need a friendly long-term future for themselves to be unfrozen into. They’ll spend many more years alive in the future than the present anyway, because unfreezing a person is orders of magnitude harder than reversing aging or generating a new body for an unfrozen person.
Many other people have probably thought of this already. What am I missing?
If cryopreservation becomes mainstream, then that’s literally it. Nobody dies, and all of humanity logrolls itself into raising the next generations to be friendly and create aligned AGI.
Even the total sociopaths participate to some degree (e.g. verbally support, often avoid obstruction if they are very powerful). If they don’t have preserved loved ones to protect, they still need a friendly long-term future for themselves to be unfrozen into. They’ll spend many more years alive in the future than the present anyway, because unfreezing a person is orders of magnitude harder than reversing aging or generating a new body for an unfrozen person.
Many other people have probably thought of this already. What am I missing?